Why Does Fall Foliage Turn So Red and Fiery?

There are different thoeries about the color of beautiful autumn leaves. The variation in color occur for many reasons and in different stages of a tree’s life cycle. Our eyesight remind us that nature a living being as seasons change.

Leaves scream their final cries in color before dropping to the ground. Their shouts — in golden, crimson or scarlet — eventually fade to brown bellows, and their lifeless bodies dry up on the forest floor. It absorbs their crinkly corpses and that’s it — worm food. The fall of a leaf in autumn is an orchestrated death. A complex, brilliant, beautiful death.

About The Author

Siamack is the executive director and co-founder of the project. He was born in a small village in southeast Iran where he learned about food and the importance of community resiliency. He attended Purdue University and worked for IBM and Apple Computers before starting a software company. He lives in San Francisco.